- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious Quotes
When something finally demands to be taken seriously.
These serious quotes call for treating education with the urgency it deserves, note how seriously an injury can threaten a team's season, and weigh in on the long-running debate over whether studying the classics is a waste of time. It's a page about what people insist actually matters. See Life for more on priorities.
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know when it's time to joke and when it's time to be serious. As far as football goes, I'm serious.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there's the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone's grass is greener.
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar Player' was always the serious musician's magazine. They rarely catered to what was popular. They focused on innovative players.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had a pretty serious fascination with fire. Luckily I'm not an arsonist!
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's one of them.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.
- Hard Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020